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On his new album the drummer, composer and self-described "beat scientist" makes music by way of an elaborate hybrid method combining improvisation with careful editing. It sounds like magic.

Climate activists have never liked Trump-appointed World Bank President David Malpass. But this week, his comments on climate change fueled calls for President Biden to make a change.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Sudan Archives about her sophomore album, "Natural Brown Prom Queen."

The National Hurricane Center says the eye of Hurricane Fiona has officially made landfall in Puerto Rico. It lands just after the entire island lost power due to the storm.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Dee Davis, publisher of The Daily Yonder rural news site, about the flooding in his town Whitesburg, Ky.

Alora Young is the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her debut poetry collection Walking Gentry Home is a memoir written in verse.

After 13 solo albums, Simon still views pop as a language of exuberant dances and polyrhythmic upheavals. Even now, his music pulses with the feeling of invention.

Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla form a banjo-wielding supergroup dedicated to the history of both string-band music and black women in America.

Hear the gorgeous voice of a young opera singer with his ears tuned to the great tenors of the past.

Country stores are a hallmark of rural life. Many have survived for more than 100 years by learning to adapt. Today, they face a new challenge: inflation.

An editing battle over its "recession" entry prompted Wikipedia to put a temporarily lock on revisions to prevent new users from repeatedly changing the definitions of recession.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with White House senior adviser Gene Sperling about Thursday's new GDP numbers and the health of the U.S. economy.

Ahead of the release of his newest record, Ryan Adams sits down with NPR Music's Bob Boilen to consider his favorite love songs, including Springsteen, Dylan and Sonic Youth.

Britain on Tuesday shattered its record for highest temperature ever registered — and the national weather forecaster predicted it would get hotter still in a country ill prepared for such extremes.

Tunisians face soaring food prices and shortages of basic staples, threatening to turn discontent in the North African country — the cradle of the Arab Spring protests — into larger turmoil.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Simon Ursell, managing director of Tyler Grange, about the company's 4-day workweek experiment and the decision to continue with a shortened week for its employees.

The disruptions add to chaos that has left people stranded at airports across the country, many of them with little idea of when they can get home or where their bags are.

The airline's CEO says the company is hoping to be "back on track before next week." But until then, it's continuing on a reduced schedule.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with former sex crimes prosecutor Jane Manning about Harvey Weinstein's recent charges and the difficulties in prosecuting sex crimes like his.

An intense cold snap caused rolling blackouts in some regions. But a more profound catastrophe didn't unfold, thanks partly to good fortune.